RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's elderly population is expected to double in the next 20 years and Gov. Beverly Perdue wants state agencies to be prepared for the influx and the benefits it could bring.
Perdue said she signed an executive order on Tuesday directing state offices to figure out ways to respond to the predicted aging work force, keep senior adults safe and benefit from their life skills as volunteers.
The state Division of Aging and other groups will survey agencies to see what impact the elderly population is having on their planning.
A study last year said North Carolina residents at least 65 years old will double to 2.2 million, or 18 percent of the population, by 2030.
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Are there
travel opportunities here? Her focus seems to gravitate to those issues which offer out of state travel.
I can see the need for focusing on an aging work force. With Obamacare and all of the other spending programs which the current administration is enacting; Social Security is effectively broke; and Pit Bull Pelosi is trying to pass legislation which would allow the Government to tax 401-K and IRA profits, now, and then again when one retires.
99% of the current work force will be unable to retire at any age.
Gee, thanks, Princess...
...but I'll keep myself safe, and if you want to benefit from my "life skills" you'll have to pay for them.
No such thing as a free lunch. You Democrats just can't grasp that, can you?
They don't care
I think they understand it but just don't care about the cost.